A school inside BandLab,
staffed by BandLab users.

Learning stops at the tutorial

A new user opens the Studio, watches a video, makes an eight-bar loop and never finishes a track. There is no path from that moment to competence, and no reason to keep going.

Skill is invisible

Nothing on a profile says what someone can actually do. Follower counts measure reach, not craft. There is no credential an artist can point to.

Teaching does not scale

The people best placed to teach BandLab are experienced BandLab users. There is no structure that lets them run a class, and no reason for them to bother.

Curriculum, not content

From "what a DAW is" through recording, arrangement, mixing, synthesis, vocals and mastering, to running your own class. Studio lessons send the student into BandLab to build the thing, then take the project back for credit.

Ranks that mean something

Points open a tier; completed coursework unlocks it. Reaching Expert means someone finished Mastering & Release and Advanced Studio Workflow - not that they logged hours. The title is a credential an artist puts in a bio.

A faculty that staffs itself

Reach Master, pass the Teaching Practicum, take one of a capped number of seats. The community that learned here teaches the next intake. The cost of teaching approaches zero as the school matures.

The session is open. Start the first course.

Enrolled

You can navigate the Studio and finish a loop.

Studio Apprentice

Rhythm, groove and arrangement that hold up.

Certified Beatmaker

A full track, start to finish, on your own.

Certified Producer

Signal flow, balance and a mix that translates.

Certified Engineer

Depth in one discipline - synthesis, vocals or mastering.

Studio Specialist

Full command of the Studio. Teaching eligibility opens here.

Expert - BandLab Studio

Mastery across every discipline. Eligible to run your own classes.

Master - BandLab Studio

Top of the ladder. Prestige unlocks here.

Studio Laureate

1. An OAuth client

Your settings already list Authorized OAuth Apps. A client id and secret for this application turns account linking, project sync and membership status from approximation into fact. The full authorization-code + PKCE client is already written and running against a simulated tenant - it needs credentials, not development.

2. A membership grant for teachers

Twelve months of Membership to anyone who takes a class of five or more students through at least three weeks to completion. The entitlement plumbing is built: a grant is earned automatically, claimed by the teacher, provisioned through an API call, and reconciled by webhook.

The maths is straightforward. A teacher who runs one three-week class brings a cohort of new users who finish something. A seat costs you a subscription you were not otherwise selling to that person.

Integration

• · OAuth 2.0 authorization-code client with PKCE, state validation and refresh.
• · A provider interface with three implementations behind one switch - nothing in the product knows whether BandLab is real or simulated.
• · Ownership verification that works today with no partner access: a challenge code placed in a public BandLab bio.
• · Cakewalk activation check, with honest fallback to self-attestation.
• · Signed inbound webhooks, stored before processing, idempotent, replayable.
• · Signed outbound webhooks with retry and a delivery log.
• · A realtime event stream over SSE, with a Socket.IO transport behind the same interface.
• · A documented partner REST API with keys, scopes, rate limiting and an OpenAPI spec.

Product

• · Eleven courses, fifty-one modules, a full lesson plan with quizzes.
• · Rank gates binding each tier to specific completed coursework.
• · Classrooms, join codes, assignments, rubrics, grading, peer review.
• · Class collaborations - the whole cohort in one shared session.
• · Verifiable certificates, checkable by anyone without an account.
• · A songwriting workbench with an offline rhyme dictionary.
• · Safeguarding built in: guardian consent, tiered moderation, audit logging.
• · Complete white-labelling: brand, theme, features, navigation, pages and emails, all editable from a control panel that is not exposed to the internet.